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Book SynopsisA collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective.
Trade Review“[Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes] is a valuable contribution to Hobbes scholarship, liberal theory, and feminist theory.”
—Anne O’Byrne Hypatia
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Nancy Tuana
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Many Faces of “Mr. Hobs”
Joanne H. Wright and Nancy J. Hirschmann
1 Hobbes, History, Politics, and Gender: A Conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin Skinner
Conducted by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright
Part 1 Classic Questions, New Approaches
2 Power and Sexual Subordination in Hobbes’s Political Theory
S. A. Lloyd
3 Defending Liberal Feminism: Insights from Hobbes
Jane S. Jaquette
4 Hobbes and the Bestial Body of Sovereignty
Su Fang Ng
Part 2 The Gendered Politics of Gratitude, Contract, and the Family
5 Thomas Hobbes on the Family and the State of Nature (1967)
Gordon J. Schochet
6 Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, Gratitude, and Women
Nancy J. Hirschmann
Part 3 Hobbes and His(torical) Women
7 Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on Freedom, Education, and Women
Karen Detlefsen
8 When Is a Contract Theorist Not a Contract Theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as Critics of Thomas Hobbes
Karen Green
9 Catharine Macaulay’s “Loose Remarks” on Hobbesian Politics
Wendy Gunther-Canada
Part 4 Hobbes in the Twenty-First Century, or What Has Hobbes Done for You Lately?
10 Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Fetal Personhood
Joanne Boucher
11 Choice Talk, Breast Implants, and Feminist Consent Theory: Hobbes’s Legacy in Choice Feminism
Joanne H. Wright
12 Toward a Hobbesian Theory of Sexuality
Susanne Sreedhar
Notes on Contributors
Index
